The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-02
AT THE TABERNACLE.
President Daniel Fl. Wells
Brief Address on Sunday.
ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH.
Baptism for the Deao-
Other Remarks.

The services at the Tabernacle on
Sunday afternoon, were opened by the
choir and congregation singing the
hymn commencing:
Arise, oh glorious Zion,
Thou joy of latter-days,
Prayer was offered by Elder Robert
Campbell.
The Sacrament was administered by
the Priesthood of the Second Ward.
PRESIDENT DANIEL 81. WELLS ad-
dressed the congregation. He said 1t
afforded him great pleasure to meet
again with the Latter-day Saints. To
say that he was pleased and gratifed,
would but poorly express his feelings on
his return from his foreign mission,
and he felt gratiied to his Heavenly |
Father for His protecting care since he |
had been abroad. He said he did not |
intend to make a long address, but he |
had testimony to bear. He knew that |
God had spoken, and revealed His Cos
pei in the last days, and revealed the |
plan of salvation tor all who would re-
ceive it. The gospel is ample enough 10 |
save all who dwell upon the earth, even |
to the uttermost. He spoke of the
glory of the sun, of the moon. and of
the stars, these being degrees of glory
and embraced all who would accept sal
walton. Jesus said: I'm my Fathers
house are many mansions, go to pre-
pare place for you" Not only is the
gospel preached to the living, but
to the dead also, Jesus having
Salvation in either of the degrees of
glory spoken of could only be obtained
through conformity with the ordinances
of the gospel. Jesus said that except
man be born of the water and of the
Spirit, he could not enter into the King
dom of God. This ordinance must be
performed for the dead as we'll as the
living, and the Lord had provided a
way whereby the living could be bap-
tized for the dead. In this day there is
not much need to preach the doctrine
of the resurrection, IS tnat was gen
orally accepted by the whole Christian
world, but the doctrine Of baptism, and
the authority OF the priesthood, were
not generally accepted and this showed
the spirit of infdelity to be spreading
among men.
1t had been said that the Latter-day
Saints are circ1mscribed in their faith,
but it is not true. 1t is the Christian
sect who are circumscribed and narrow
in their faith, cousigning a majority of
the human family to an endless hell.
W. are living in an age of events, he
continued, IN the evening of time, &C
cording to the wise men and students.
The Lord had inaugurated this last
diSpens2tinn nrenarR tory To the coming
! OF Christ in power, to reign on earth,
/ and when the gospel had been preached
| to the whole world He will come. He
woud come soon enough; as soon IS
Lajter-day Saints were prepared for
! Him. and before the majority of the
world were ready.
! The spirit of infidelity was increasing
| in the earth, he said, and the world was
| beginning to doubt the coming of the
millennium, because they knew not God.
! The gospel which had been taken from
the earth had been restored again, and
/ the Latter day Saints are engaged in the
work preparatory to the coming Of
| Christ, aud all things testified to the
uearuess of that great event.
Good men had lived in all ages of the
world, but the angel who was TO restore
the gospel and the authority OF the holy
priesthood cid not come TO them. The
( reformers during the dark ages. chris
t0uher Columbus, the fathers who
framed our Constitution, were all
INSPIRED men. but the angel did not
CINE TO them. He did come. however,
t, Joseph Smith, who was raised up 10
! perform the necessary work. The gos-
| pei IS now being proclaimed to the
! world BIZ the elders, and they would
continue to preach 1t, for this was the
mission of the Latter day Saints, who
want faith with authority. Let the
Saints strive to 1--we so that they may
receive salvation in the glory typifed
by the sun. 1t was his nope and
PRAYER that the Saints might not go
estray, nor be led off into bye and Cor
hidden paths, but live uprightlY before
the Lord.
President A. n. CANNON was the
next speaker. He said that he had re-
ioiced in listening TO tie remarks OF
President Wells aud could bear testi-
monv to their truth. God had restored
the priesthood to the earth. In answer
to Joseph Smiths prayers, asking that
| God would reveal unto him which OF the
sects was right, God appeared unto him
with Christ, and taught hinrthe gospel,
snd Joseph carried salTation 10 the IN
habitaltS OF the SdIlus Inc mcSScSe
that he brought was that the people of
The earth should repent of their sins.
This startled the world aud they
thought it g strange thing that God
sbonld again speak to his children.
Asst was in the days Of Noah, when
God sent a warming to the people, so it
il nov and il Is no more strange for the
Lord to reveal His will now than it was
anciently. There had been a complete
gpostacy from the primitive church, and
! this was observed by John Wesley and
other reformers. Joseph Smith. the
prophet, had exercised the degree OF
faith necessary and received the mes
sage from Heaven.
The speaker referred to the psrshle
of the stewards, in which Jesus
had shown the condition of the lnhablt-
ants of the eartn at the time
Of His coming in the meridian OF time.
| Those to whom He spoke verified HIS
sayings by putting Him to death.
Those wicked stewards had never been
overthrow. nor the world taken from
! their control. This is yet 10 be done.
! The rroSvoI &c one of faith and re-